I don't know why it isn't more common to open source really old games.
You don't have to give away the assets. ID gave away the source to Doom and Quake and people can still play them now. Yet here we are, 20 years later, and they're about the only studio that ever bothered.
At school we had a thing where if your ring finger was longer than your index finger then it meant you were a bummer. Never mind the fact that you can change that with slight angling of the hand.
I realised this when I took money out of a cash machine in Tenerife.
It shows you an exchange rate and a prompt to accept. If you press yes, you get scammed with a crap rate. It's not really clear that if you press no you still get money but at your bank exchange rate which is almost certainly better than a scummy airport ATM.
I guess it's nice that you get scammed right out of the gate, because at least it puts you on guard for the rest of your holiday. Fuck that whole island tbh.
I played Midnight Resistance and RoboCop on the Spectrum constantly. Initially with Pokes for infinite lives and shit, but by the end I could sail through both and barely take a hit.
I think the main issue people have is that they got Peter Molyneux'd on it. Which is fair enough, and why I don't really read much about games before I play them.
I'm glad I held off until PL came out, because it looks like the 2.0 update fixed a lot of things that would irritate me, like gear and levelling blocking off missions. It does rob you of a sense of progression, but I'll trust their decision to drop that.
There's enough RPG elements to get in the way of it being a shooter, but not enough to actually satisfy anybody who wanted a full blown RPG. Decisions especially are very binary and I gave up on the platinum trophy after seeing I'd have to save a guy I let die about 60 hours of gameplay ago, in a save long since overridden.
I guess I've been around the block enough times to filter out any claims of amazing AI and day/night cycles. We've heard those claims before with Fable and Oblivion, and all it really meant is "the shops shut at night". And here it didn't even do that, at least beyond a handful of locations where you had to press a button to wait until they opened before you could do the quest inside.
I think I've had a lot better experience going into this late and blind.
Patches mean we're no longer in the days of bad games being bad forever, but they're certainly remembered that way.
Here's what I don't get about every Chinese item on Amazon:
Why the terrible photoshop?
You've got a product. You make it. It's cheap crap, sure, but so are most established brands at this point. You probably make them in the same factory.
And surely somebody who works for you isn't a grotesquely ugly freak and could just hold the item, or otherwise use it as intended.
But no, everything from digital cameras to sticking plasters is slapped over the top of a bit of stock photography taken at an entirely different angle and lighting conditions to the one you took of the product.
Oh it's beans. I thought it was Wotsits.